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ClamAV 1.1 Released For Advancing Open-Source Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware Software

Phoronix - Tue, 05/02/2023 - 06:30
Last November ClamAV 1.0 was released for this anti-virus/anti-malware solution currently developed via Cisco and the open-source community. Following ClamAV 1.0 LTS, today marks the availability of ClamAV 1.1 as the first post-1.0 feature release...

AMD ROCm 5.5 In The Process Of Being Released

Phoronix - Tue, 05/02/2023 - 05:00
AMD has begun publishing ROCm 5.5 source packages for the Radeon Open eCosystem components making up their GPU compute stack that is also being extended to cover Xilinx products and more...

Red Hat's HDR Hackfest Sounds Like It Was A Success

Phoronix - Tue, 05/02/2023 - 02:30
Red Hat organized an HDR hackfest to bring together all the Linux desktop stakeholders around the desktop, display drivers, and related infrastructure for helping to make progress on High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support. The event took place last week at Red Hat's Brno office in the Czech Republic and sounds like it was quite a success...

Linux 6.4 Fixes An Issue Where Intel USB Support Could Be Broken After Resume

Phoronix - Tue, 05/02/2023 - 01:00
Since last November has been a kernel bug report from a Canonical engineer after finding that the Intel Thunderbolt USB controller on various laptops was "dead" after resuming the system. That problem is now resolved with Linux 6.4 and this generic fix may end up helping other hardware as well...

Fedora Onyx Aims To Be A New Fedora Linux Immutable Variant

Phoronix - Mon, 05/01/2023 - 22:17
While there is already Fedora Silverblue as a Fedora Workstation variant leveraging RPM-OSTree for creating an ummutable OS image and Fedora Kinoite as a KDE-based alternative, Fedora Onyx has been proposed as a new immutable variant of Fedora Linux...

Linux 6.4 Has Many Networking Changes From A New Performance Tunable To More WiFi 7

Phoronix - Mon, 05/01/2023 - 20:42
With Linux running on everything from tiny single board computers with basic WiFi or Ethernet networking up through massive super-computer clusters, the Linux networking subsystem continues seeing immense improvements each kernel cycle. With Linux 6.4 the networking changes are heavy from new hardware support (including Apple M1 Pro/Max WiFi!) to continued work around WiFi 7 support as well as never-ending work on performance optimizations...

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